AVARBON VALLEYIDAHO · OUR SHARED HISTORY
11 ARTICLES · 1904–2024 · NEWEST FIRST

Water & irrigation.

Ditches, canals, reservoirs, dams, wells and springs, and the rights to the valley's water.

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Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.

Pocatello businessmen tour Arbon Valley, and a reader says the paper missed it

In June 1965 more than a hundred Pocatello businessmen and Arbon Valley farmers shared breakfast up Mink Creek and toured the valley from Sod Williams's ranch to a proposed dam on Bannock Creek, and a week later a guest scolded the Journal for reporting a tour it never joined.

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Spring floods leave Arbon Valley cut off on every side

When melting snow sent the creeks over their banks in late March 1962, Arbon Valley lost its roads, its power and its telephone, and the mail came in over planks laid across a broken highway.

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Arbon's first settler tells how the valley began

In the fall of 1917 David J. Bowen told the American Falls Press how he found water on Knox Creek in 1892, built a cabin of aspen logs the next year and became postmaster of the valley's first post office.

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Even the mountain ranges are being homesteaded

Through 1915 the *American Falls Press* followed Arbon Valley homesteaders as they filed in Knox Canyon and on the ranges, drilled for water, built houses and sold out.

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An Arbon rancher brings big plans to Pocatello

In July 1910 an Arbon rancher came to Pocatello talking of a commercial club, an irrigation company and a Pioneer Day, and the *Tribune* put Arbon on its front page.

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